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ears of a dog, their one eye set. in the middle of their forehead, the hair standing erect, and their breasts shaggy; ^f of the A m n k t e r e s also, a people without nostrils, who devour everything, eat raw meat, and are short-lived, and die before old age supervenes.* The upper part of the month protrudes far over the lower lip. ° With regard to the Hyperboreans, who live a thousand years, they give the same account as Simonides, Pindaros, and other mythological writers.t 10 The story told by Tiniagenes, that
•jj" What Mogastlicmos hero mentions as the characteristics of a single tribe are by the Indians attributed to several. The one-eyed men they are wont to call dkCdksJi&s or ckai-vilo-c'h.(.uititi—tbo men with hair standing erect, UTd'Iivft'ke^cd. Indian Cy city en even are mentioned under the name of La.litt&kishns, i.e. having' one eye in the forehead: vide Schwanb. 70.
* " That the Asbomi are mentioned in the Indian books we cannot show so well as in the case of the Auiuktores, whom Megasthenes describes as irafjxptiyovs, wfiofaiyavs, 3o\iyoxpovL<jv$. "Nevertheless the very words of the description are a proof that he followed the narratives of the Indians, for tlio words Hct^dyos, &e. by winch he htis described the Anmkteres, are very rarely nsed in Greek., and are translations of Indian words." Sehwanb. G9.
f Pindar, who locates the Hyperboreans somewhere about the mouths of the later, thus king's of them:—
" Bui. who with venturous course through wave or waatc To Hyperborean haunts and wilds* nutraeed;
E'er found his \votidruns way ? There Perseus pressed amain.
And 'midst the feast entered their strange abode, Where hecatombs of MSSOS slain
To soothe the radian!' ,u'od Astounded lie behold. Their rude solemnities,
Their barbarous shouts, Apollo's heart delight: Laughing the rampant brute he aee.s
r n suit the Liolemn rite-Still their sights, their cu>iLoiUw afcrautfo, Scare nof the * Muse,' while all around